Cat Tuesday: Mike's Adventure in British Columbia

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Mike's Adventure in British Columbia

with Kellie the Orange Cat

Mike is currently in Skǻne, Sweden with Gretchen's sweetheart, Yoggie. He just got home from Taipei Taiwan and his visit with Adan and Michico. So there's lot to write about. Today, I'm going to post what Mike had to say about his visit with Kelly the Orange Cat in British Columbia, Canada.


Mike here:
On October 29th, I teleported up to British Columbia, Canada for a week's visit with Kellie.
Wow, what a trip that was. Lots of exciting things happened that I had no idea were going to happen. After spending a week with the Ballicai in Tennessee, I figured Kellie and I would just kinda hang out around her house, like I did at Mao's. Just have lots of snacks, play with her toys and just get to know here.

Well…I no sooner popped through the Chunnel at her nice warm house, when the next day, Kellie and I flew off to Galveston, Texas to join up with the Lucky Luxor Road Trip. I met Dragonheart, and MontyQ. Lux of course, and Parker. I'm going to go visit Parker when I get back from Sweden. They were a great bunch of cats to be touring the country with in a big, red, double-decker bus. We were singing all kinds of fun songs as we passed from one state to the next, visiting a lot of cat blogosphere friends along the way. A fellow cat called, Monty Q, was the loudest singer in the group. He had a little different tone than the others, however. In any case we visited a lot of great kitty fellows until Kellie and I got to Daisy Mae Mause's house in San Diego. Then we flew back up to British Columbia for a few more days.

Kelly and had a great time playing tent wars in her pink cubes. And guess what? I won, yay!
And I enjoyed hanging out in Kellie's cat tree, too. We batted balls all over the place, had lots of fun spazzing time together. Kellie's mum seemed to like me, too. That's always import that the beans like me, after all, it is their house I'm staying in. I wasn't too bad, I don't think. Kellie said I was a bit mischievous, but presently, I can't remember….

On November 5th, I said goodbye to my lovely, new friend, Kellie and her beans. She had a lovely home and lives in a very lovely country. But before I give you her interview, I have to tell you what happened to me on my way home.

You see, it never occurred to any of us in Gretchen's household that teleporting through worm holes in cyberspace would require a passport. Not one us thought about technical difficulties with a bunch of fiber optic cables, until it actually happened. Now, mind you I'd been flying across the border from Canada to the US with Kellie, twice, and traveling all over the States in a bus full of cats, so it just never occurred to me that I'd need some kind of identification. I mean, to the real world, I am just a fluffhead, right?

Well, I was whizzing along through the wormhole, I always keep my eyes shut tight, so I don't get so dizzy, but anyway, here I am, whizzing along at top, light speed and all of a sudden I land on the hard pavement outside the US Border crossing between Canada and the States in the middle of the night.

Wow, imagine my surprise when I found myself lying there in a lump of fluff, starring at the toe end of the border guard's boots. I looked up and smiled at the biggest guy I'd ever seen. He was staring down at me with his hands on his hips, and he had meanest scowl on with face I'd ever seen.

The next thing I knew, this giant hand comes down and grabs me by my tail, no less, and holds me up eyelevel with his face. He still wasn't smiling, so I figured, uh, oh, that's the end of Mike the World Traveler. Not only was I at a dead end road in my existence, but I found out I couldn't even charm this guy with my Mysterious eyes. His head wasn't filled with fluff, so it must have been filled with cement. He couldn't hear or understand a single telepathic transmission that I was frantically sending out.

He took me inside the building and put me on the counter in front of a broad lady with a badge pinned to her buxom shirt, and said, "Look what just fell out of the sky! You figure it's some kind of spy…an illegal alien disguised as a poor imitation of a stuffed cat?"

The lady officer turned me over a couple of times and then found my tag. You see, almost all fluffheads are made somewhere in this world and they have a tag of ingredients, sewn into their body somewhere. Mine happens to be a white tag sewn into the inside of my left, hind leg. So it stands out like a sore thumb.

Well, the lady could read. She grabbed the tag, and held it, and my leg, up close to her bifocals and muttered the words "Made in China." Then she uttered the most amazing words. "This ratty, old thing was probably dropped out of an airplane by some little kid. It's not a threat to us," she laughed a terrible scratchy kind of laugh and then opened the door to a closet full of various kinds of things. I figured it must have been a place that held all the stuff they confiscated off the people trying to bring things across the border that they're not supposed to.

I didn't think I'd ever get out of that closet. When the lady shut the door, it was terribly dark in there. I must have sat there for hours, before I realized that I had been tossed on top of someone's laptop computer. I managed to get the thing open and turned it on. I quickly tapped in my pass code and shwoooosh! I was back in cyberspace, hopefully on my way home, to Gretchen.

A few seconds later I plopped through my portal, and whew, what a relief it was to be home again. When I explained my frightening experience to Gretchen's mom bean, she quickly made up a passport for me to carry on all my next adventures.

Here's what Kellie revealed to me in my interview with her:

Sunday, November 4, 2007
Mike's time with Kellie The Orange Cat

Kellie: I have had so much fun with Mike! We have done so many things that I am a little tired and in need of a nap and I suspect Mike is too.

Mike: How long have you lived with your bean(s)

Kellie: In one month it will be my 6th year Gotchaversary! My Mum and I picked each other out in December of 2001.

Mike: Do you have a favorite bean?

Kellie: My favourite bean is my Mum, she is very good to me, she talks to me, she feeds me good food, buys me the toys I like and is very cuddly.

Mike: What's your favorite food?

Kellie: I really like Fancy Feast stinky goodness too, but I'm not allowed to have it anymore because it makes me have digestive troubles, so I now just eat Science Diet dry food.

Mike: What's your favorite treat?

Kellie: My favourite treat is Tempations, I wish I could have a whole bowl of them :)

Mike: Where do you like to sleep?

Kellie: I like to sleep anywhere my Mum is. I sleep cuddled up to her in bed, cuddled on her chest or lap while she reads or watches t.v., I even sleep on her feet or on her lap when she is on the computer.

Mike: Do you dream? What are your dreams about?

Kellie: I dream alot. My Mum laughs sometimes when I reach out or meow when I am sleeping. In my dreams I am chasing the fuzzy coloured mouses that live in our house. We have them everywhere! Over the years my Mum says she has bought at least 10 12 packs of the mouses and they are always disappearing. They are very sneaky and hide under the washer, dryer, stove etc.

Mike: Do you like fluffheads, you know, those crafty little creatures with fiberfill for brains?

Kellie: I love fluffheads. My Mum has lots of them, but the majority of them live in my Grandpa's attic. We do have a few at our house, including a sock kitty that Monty Q's Mum made. She is my Sisfur Cherry.

Mike: How many fluffheads live with you and your bean?

Kellie: Right now we have 2 teddy bears, 1 Halloween kitty and my sisfur Cherry.

Mike: Do you get along with your fluffheads? Really?

Kellie: I get along with my fluffheads, except my sisfur Cherry sometimes scares me and I pounce on her and rough her up a bit. Usually, my Mum has to take her away from me or I will just keep bunny kicking her.

Mike: Do have a special fluffhead friend?

Kellie: Cherry is my special fluffhead, she is the only one I allow on our bed.

Mike: Do your fluffheads ever talk to you? Do they talk to your beans, you know, like I can transmit my thoughts to one special bean in my house?

Kellie: Of course they talk to me, they are not mute. Cherry and the Halloween cat sometimes taunt me and try to get me in trouble, but usually they are nice to me.

Mike: You have a very nice place here; tell me about your weather and your surroundings, what is it like outside your house? (Mountains, seaside, desert, woods, etc.)

Kellie: We live in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. We are an hour's drive from the Washington border. Our town of 30,000 people is located between two lakes, which is very nice in the summer and also very busy because a lot of people come to visit our town in the summer. We grow a lot of fruit here in the summer; cherries, peaches, apples, pears, apricots and the list goes on and on......

Mike: Are you an inside only cat or do you get to go outside?

Kellie: I am an inside only cat, although I have a nice closed in deck that I get to go out and play on in the summer time. Sometimes I whine to go out on the deck in the winter and my Mum lets me out but I come in very quickly:)

Mike: Do you keep secrets from your beans? Sometimes Gretchen and I conspire against her mom bean in the middle of the night. It really freaks her out. Do you do things like that?

Kellie: I sometimes try to drive my Mum crazy by staring at the wall for a long period of time, until she finally gets up and tries to find what is on the wall and then I walk away. It is so funny!

Mike: Have you been gifted with any hidden talents?

Kellie: My Mum says I have a hidden talent of being able to tell the time. I am always waiting for my Mum at the window at 5:05 to greet her when she comes home from work. I can also tell when my Mum or Grandpa's car drives up. When I am home with my Mum and my Grandpa drives by to park I run to the window to greet him.

Mike: Is there anything in your house that bothers you? That you're afraid of?

Kellie: I don't like the sucking machine that my Mum walks around the house every couple of days. I don't know why she has to accompany it around the house, but she does. My Mum wishes that I liked it so she could vacuum me, but I'm afraid it would just suck me right up!

Mike: Do you stalk and capture real live critters like mice, spiders and stuff? What kinds of critters do you stalk? Do you eat what you catch?

Kellie: I stalk, capture and eat spiders and flies that dare come into my house. A few years ago I also stalked and captured 4 bats that I captured out on my deck (the deck is enclosed with screen and lattice work. I brought them in the house and my Mum was not impressed. I killed one and left the others alive and fluttering around the house. Mum phoned Grandpa and he came and captured them and put them back outside, even after all my work of capturing them for her! That same year I also caught a bird and brought it in. I left it by the front door for my Mum, I also took a bite out of it and then threw up beside it. Again, my Mum was not impressed and I was no longer allowed to go outside while Mum was at work :(

Mike: Do you have siblings or housemates? Do you get along with them?

Kellie: I am an only cat.

Mike: Do you have a sweetheart?

Kellie: Sadly, I am still a single girl.

Mike: What is your most fun activity?

Kellie: My favourite activity is to chase bouncey balls and coloured fuzzy mouses around the house.

Thanks, Kellie, I had a great time, too!

Mike the World Traveler